diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f0b6738cddfccf5e487a790937ccc22d64db5fd0..89d01b57b17147ab80af7c49c2aad1c72de0e120 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,84 @@
 # Release Notes
+## Version 1.16.0-beta.0 - 2020-12-14
+
+Features:
+* Add persistent storage for /var/lib/buildkit [#9948](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9948)
+* start: Support comma-delimited --addons [#9957](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9957)
+* added statusName for kubeconfig [#9888](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9888)
+* Add spinner at preparing Kubernetes... [#9855](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9855)
+* Make none driver work as regular user (use sudo on demand) [#9379](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9379)
+* Display ScheduledStop status in minikube status [#9793](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9793)
+* Add support for restoring existing podman env [#9801](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9801)
+* Add linux packages for the arm64 architecture [#9859](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9859)
+* Ability to use a custom TLS certificate with the Ingress [#9797](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9797)
+* Add private network implementation for podman [#9716](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9716)
+* Add --cancel-scheduled flag to cancel all existing scheduled stops [#9774](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9774)
+* Add OpenTelemetry tracing to minikube [#9723](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9723)
+* Implement scheduled stop on windows [#9689](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9689)
+* Support non-default docker endpoints [#9510](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9510)
+
+Bug Fixes:
+* wsl2: log warning if br_netfilter cannot be enabled rather than fatally exit [#9932](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9932)
+* Fix podman network inspect format and error [#9866](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9866)
+* Fix multi node two pods getting same IP and nodespec not having PodCIDR [#9875](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9875)
+* Fix `node start` master node [#9833](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9833)
+* Optionally use ssh for docker-env instead of tcp [#9548](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9548)
+* Fix --extra-config when starting an existing cluster [#9634](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9634)
+* fix unable to set memory in config [#9789](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9789)
+* Set 'currentstep' for PullingBaseImage json event [#9844](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9844)
+* Fix missing InitialSetup in `node start` [#9832](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9832)
+* fix base image when using with custom image repository [#9791](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9791)
+* add Restart=on-failure for inner docker systemd service [#9775](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9775)
+* Add number of nodes for cluster in `minikube profile list` [#9702](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9702)
+* Do not auto-select Hyper-V driver if session has no privilege [#9588](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9588)
+* Fix registry-creds addon failure with ImageRepository [#9733](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9733)
+
+Upgrades:
+* Upgrade buildkit from 0.7.2 to 0.8.0 [#9940](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9940)
+* Upgrade crio.conf to version v1.19.0 [#9917](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9917)
+* Update the containerd configuration to v2 [#9915](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9915)
+* update default kubernetes version to 1.20.0 [#9897](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9897)
+* Upgrade CRI-O, from 1.18.4 to 1.19.0 [#9902](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9902)
+* Update crictl to v1.19.0 [#9901](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9901)
+* ISO: Upgrade Podman, from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 [#9896](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9896)
+* Upgrade go version to 1.15.5 [#9899](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9899)
+* Upgrade Docker, from 19.03.14 to 20.10.0 [#9895](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9895)
+* ISO: Upgrade podman to version 2.2.0 and remove varlink [#9635](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9635)
+* KIC: Upgrade podman to version 2.2.0 and remove varlink [#9636](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9636)
+* Upgrade kicbase to ubuntu:focal-20201106 [#9863](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9863)
+* Upgrade Docker, from 19.03.13 to 19.03.14 [#9861](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9861)
+* Buildroot 2020.02.8 [#9862](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9862)
+* Update crictl to v1.18.0 [#9867](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9867)
+* bump storage provsioner to multi arch [#9822](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/9822)
+
+Thank you to our contributors for this release!
+
+- AUT0R3V
+- Anders Björklund
+- Andrea Spadaccini
+- Brian Li
+- Daehyeok Mun
+- Ilya Zuyev
+- Jeroen Dekkers
+- Jituri, Pranav
+- Ling Samuel
+- Martin Schimandl
+- Medya Ghazizadeh
+- Parthvi Vala
+- Peyton Duncan
+- Predrag Rogic
+- Priya Wadhwa
+- Ruben Baez
+- Sadlil
+- Sharif Elgamal
+- Stefan Lobbenmeier
+- Steven Powell
+- Tharun
+- Thomas Strömberg
+- Tpk
+- Yehiyam Livneh
+- edtrist
+- msedzins
 
 ## Version 1.15.1 - 2020-11-16
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5f2a7f35a9f5ff8729b3f6e45aa4881abc03acda..121636d6d6f63e4d2dcc1b67a3d355317244d43a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 # Bump these on release - and please check ISO_VERSION for correctness.
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 1
-VERSION_MINOR ?= 15
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 1
+VERSION_MINOR ?= 16
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 0-beta.0
 RAW_VERSION=$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 VERSION ?= v$(RAW_VERSION)
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ KUBERNETES_VERSION ?= $(shell egrep "DefaultKubernetesVersion =" pkg/minikube/co
 KIC_VERSION ?= $(shell egrep "Version =" pkg/drivers/kic/types.go | cut -d \" -f2)
 
 # Default to .0 for higher cache hit rates, as build increments typically don't require new ISO versions
-ISO_VERSION ?= v1.16.0-snapshot4
+ISO_VERSION ?= v1.16.0
 # Dashes are valid in semver, but not Linux packaging. Use ~ to delimit alpha/beta
 DEB_VERSION ?= $(subst -,~,$(RAW_VERSION))
 RPM_VERSION ?= $(DEB_VERSION)
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_none.sh b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_none.sh
index ce36afee5f78cc21be66b0e22e85301852ea099f..2a78e5308d11b5215f86aeebfc9ff11d7af3d974 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_none.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_none.sh
@@ -68,4 +68,7 @@ fi
 mkdir -p cron && gsutil -m rsync "gs://minikube-builds/${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}/cron" cron || echo "FAILED TO GET CRON FILES"
 sudo install cron/cleanup_and_reboot_Linux.sh /etc/cron.hourly/cleanup_and_reboot || echo "FAILED TO INSTALL CLEANUP"
 
+# We need this for reasons now
+sudo sysctl fs.protected_regular=0
+
 source ./common.sh
diff --git a/site/content/en/docs/commands/start.md b/site/content/en/docs/commands/start.md
index b5bf841febdc90b66ebdc65484451e93b0310992..3d12e8dd1f64576e428d96df01f05085d7410e24 100644
--- a/site/content/en/docs/commands/start.md
+++ b/site/content/en/docs/commands/start.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ minikube start [flags]
       --insecure-registry strings         Insecure Docker registries to pass to the Docker daemon.  The default service CIDR range will automatically be added.
       --install-addons                    If set, install addons. Defaults to true. (default true)
       --interactive                       Allow user prompts for more information (default true)
-      --iso-url strings                   Locations to fetch the minikube ISO from. (default [https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.16.0-snapshot4.iso,https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.16.0-snapshot4/minikube-v1.16.0-snapshot4.iso,https://kubernetes.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.16.0-snapshot4.iso])
+      --iso-url strings                   Locations to fetch the minikube ISO from. (default [https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.16.0.iso,https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.16.0/minikube-v1.16.0.iso,https://kubernetes.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.16.0.iso])
       --keep-context                      This will keep the existing kubectl context and will create a minikube context.
       --kubernetes-version string         The Kubernetes version that the minikube VM will use (ex: v1.2.3, 'stable' for v1.20.0, 'latest' for v1.20.0). Defaults to 'stable'.
       --kvm-gpu                           Enable experimental NVIDIA GPU support in minikube